Sarasota Film Festival director Tom Hall, who has consulted with festival programmers around the world to develop Best Practices for Film Festivals, delivered succinct advice to filmmakers on Thursday during IFP Film Week.

When IFP announced that ITVS's Claire Aguilar, Tia Lessin and Carl Deal, the filmmakers behind "Citizen Koch," and Mette Hoffman Meyer, an executive who works in Danish television and who executive produced Alex Gibney's "Park Avenue" as a part of the multinational programming initiative "Why Povert...

IFP's Independent Film Week wrapped up Thursday, Sept. 20, but before it did Indiewire fanned out to cover a number of provocative panels and events around Lincoln Center. Below, you can find all of Indiewire's coverage of IFW 2012 in one place; just click through for the full stories.

Panel moderator Liz Rosenthal, of digital media group Power to the Pixel, opened Independent Film Week's "Transmedia is for the People" discussion by lamenting declines in the time and money that audiences have to devote to media, even as the quantity and variety of content and channel...